mons
noun
an area of the body that is higher than neighboring areas.
mons
1 American
[monz]
/ mɒnz /
noun
Anatomy.
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montes
plural
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an area of the body that is higher than neighboring areas.
Mons
2
American
[mawn s]
/ mɔ̃s /
noun
Mons.
3
American
abbreviation
Mons
British
/ mɔ̃s /
noun
Other Word Forms
Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of mons
1615–25; < New Latin; Latin mōns mountain, hill; see mount 2
Example Sentences
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Although many of the characters, including the physicians, in “Man’s 4th Best Hospital” are women, and, although Bergman has gotten beyond the trope of nurse as dumb mons, his depiction of gender is still old-fashioned.
From The New Yorker ● Dec. 25, 2019
The mountain ranges and individual mountains are labeled with their Latin names, "montes" for mountain ranges and "mons" for individual mountains.
From Scientific American ● May 17, 2013
By a vote of 163 to 78 in the House of Com mons, and 38 to 23 in the Senate, Canada's Parliament approved what Liberal Prime Minister Lester Pearson calls a flag for all Canadians.
From Time Magazine Archive
But in the House of Com mons, the reaction to Wilson is generally one of uneasy suspicion, and he is frequently accused of being "slippery."
From Time Magazine Archive
It is like the mons placiti of Scone, or those hills which are called laws, such as Kelly law, North Berwick law, and several others.
From The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides with Samuel Johnson, LL.D. by James Boswell
"That happens when you don't completely kill the bacteria but merely irritate them," Mons says.
From Science Daily ● Mar. 11, 2026
Mons and her colleagues studied how EVG7 affects C. difficile infections in mice.
From Science Daily ● Mar. 11, 2026
The 87-year-old Pontiff, who was taken to a Roman hospital on Wednesday for diagnostic testing after having to cancel some public audiences, handed his speech to his aide, Mons.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 1, 2024
Molten basalt is runnier than recycled magma and spreads out into broad “shield” volcanoes like Mars’s Olympus Mons.
From National Geographic ● Oct. 12, 2023
Olympus Mons is the highest peak on Mars.
From "Darius the Great Is Not Okay" by Adib Khorram
In 1903 the Nobel prize for physical science was awarded, half to Mons. and Mme.
From Scientific American ● Oct. 28, 2011
"A friend of my brother's came home that way from Mons. It seemed like a hell of a joke. Chaps never know anything, do they?"
From "The Sun Also Rises" by Ernest Hemingway
For the situation of affairs in England I refer you to Mr Rogers, Aid de Camp to Mons. du Coudray.
From The Diplomatic Correspondence of the American Revolution, Vol. I by Jared Sparks
“You mistake me, my daughter,” said Mons. de Méaux.
From Nuts and Nutcrackers by Charles James Lever
"His Royal Highness will set you down, Mons. de Corneille," said the aide-de-camp, advancing to me.
From Confessions Of Con Cregan An Irish Gil Blas by Charles James Lever
The mountain ranges and individual mountains are labeled with their Latin names, "montes" for mountain ranges and "mons" for individual mountains.
From Scientific American ● May 17, 2013
These institutions were formed on the model of the montes profani, the system of public debt resorted to by many Italian States.
From An Essay on Mediaeval Economic Teaching by George O'Brien
The sprightly company, which had taken for its motto "Sic juvat transcendere montes," looked and worshiped.
From Audrey by Mary Johnston
He speaks of four montes, which had castles.
From Notes and Queries, Number 57, November 30, 1850 by Various
This attack on Charleston to some extent justifies: parturiunt montes, etc.
From Diary from November 12, 1862, to October 18, 1863 by Adam G. de Gurowski, Count
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